By:  Maxey                                             H.B. No. 284
       73R2043 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that a person appointed to the board of
    1-3  fire commissioners of certain rural fire prevention districts be a
    1-4  resident of the district.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 794.033, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-8        (e)  To be eligible for appointment to the board, a person
    1-9  must be a resident of the district.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.  The
   1-11  change in law made by this Act applies only to a person who is
   1-12  appointed to a board of fire commissioners on or after that date.
   1-13  A person appointed to a board of fire commissioners before the
   1-14  effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
   1-15  appointment was made, and the former law is continued in effect for
   1-16  that purpose.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.